In the context of this post, Geezer regrets to report, SEAL test is not ice cream. It’s the physical challenge faced by anyone who hopes to join the elite Navy special warfare unit known as the SEALS, a group that, the Navy reminds us, "take their name from the elements […]

Finally, medical researchers have found a weight-control program that is hard to object to: It’s called sleeping, and the more of it we do,–up to a point–the less likely we are to put on extra pounds. The BBC reports that when researchers from Ohio’s Case Western Reserve University followed nearly […]

At at time when gas is going for three bucks a gallon and we can’t pick up a newspaper without reading about an epidemic of obesity, biking to work would seem like a no brainer. Save money, lose calories, cut pollution, and feel great when you arrive at the office, […]

The Boston Globe’s Pulitzer Prize-winning photographer Stan Grossfield, hangs out with Jim Fannin, author of S.C.O.R.E. for Life: the secrect formula for thinking like a champion, and creator of a mental visualization system that has been used to increase productivity and decrease negativity by 22 major league All-Stars, including four […]

The Harvard Men’s Health Watch is an eight-page monthly newsletter that charges 24 bucks a year for the print version, but gives away the basics of one article online. This month, the freebie is about How to Keep Your Braiin Young. Harvard gives us these nine tips: * Get mental […]

Working out in New York City doesn’t get any trendier than it does at that city’s Crunch, the obsessive compulsive’s first choice in fitness centers, and one that is by necessity open 24 hours a day. Now a clever editor at the New York Times has hired the obsessively trendy […]

Finally, the L.A. Times points out, the makers of kayaks and bike frames and wet suits have figured out that something that Geezer has suspected for a long time: women are different from men. They think different, look different and require sports equipment that is sized and shaped differently from […]

Every service magazine editor knows that the problem with "how to" lists is that every year, they have to get newer, and if they can’t get newer, they have to get bigger. Hence, Men’s Health, list master of health books, gives us "100 Ways to Live Forever."  It’s easy reading, […]

The Washington Post reports that what we don’t know about the benefits of vitamins could fill all of the labels of all of the vitamin bottles in West L.A, but probably won’t, anytime soon. That’s because the "dietary supplement" business is a $23 billion industry, and that kind of money […]

iPod yoga was probably not on the short list of talking points put together by Apple’s marketing department when the company launched the iPod, but to Yoga-loving iPod owners, it’s a match made in nirvana. The Los Angeles Times writes about one stressed-out Californian and the salvation offered by a […]